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March 27, 2019

Awesome Asciidoctor: Help On Syntax As HTML

With the release of Asciidoctor 2.0.0 we get nice help on the basic syntax of Asciidoc with the command-line option --help syntax. This gives us samples of the syntax in Asciidoc markup. As mentioned by Dan Allen on Twitter we can pipe the syntax sample to Asciidoctor itself to get a HTML page:


This is very useful! We have the source and the output of Asciidoc markup with really useful samples.

Let's run Asciidoctor with --help syntax and convert it to HTML and open the HTML in our web browser: $ asciidoctor --help syntax | asciidoctor -o syntax.html - && open syntax.html.
We get the following result:

To get the syntax in a Asciidoc markup file we can run $ asciidoctor --help syntax > syntax.adoc.

Written with Asciidoctor 2.0.2.